TUTORIAL Race Track Builder - Inject elevation data and terrain texture

[Les Neilson]

Then we need to learn a bit of PHP scripting. I had a brief look at the .PHP files and there's a section that deals with the Google maps data, but I'm not sure how to modify it

 

[wimdes]

This thread has been dormant for a while
I just published a Python script that makes it easy to create a track .csv file directly from lidar data, based on a gpx track: https://acrallycentral.com/lidar-data-tools-for-rtb/
It shouldn't be hard to create a height plugin using the same system - except I don't know C#
So if anyone with C# skills is interested, do get in touch

 

[Les Neilson]

It certainly has been dormant! Apart from not having the time to do much of this at all lately, I decided it was much easier just to use geoserver and the Google maps override. The reason is, geoserver can read just about any file type and size and give me the data I want without me having to recode it all. So the only plugin I would really need might be a way to select an alternative to Google maps...

 

[wimdes]

It certainly has been dormant! Apart from not having the time to do much of this at all lately, I decided it was much easier just to use geoserver and the Google maps override. The reason is, geoserver can read just about any file type and size and give me the data I want without me having to recode it all. So the only plugin I would really need might be a way to select an alternative to Google maps...

Do you mean an alternative to the Google orthopics? The geoserver does work nicely indeed but it's quite a handful to get going. It shouldn't be much more complicated than this plugin - but this one would need some improvements, mainly like proper coordinate translation to fit into the 'real world' (and memory usage)

 

[Les Neilson]

Yes, geoserver does need some setting up, but the tradeoff is that you don't need to worry about coordinate translation or anything else, because geoserver does all that for you. And it handles any other file type you might find. Which is why I say the only plugin that would interest me would be one that simplifies the process of connecting to geoserver and bypassing Google maps

 

[wimdes]

Ah you mean a plugin replacing the hosts file redirection & XAMPP elements, that would be nice indeed. What i'm thinking is it would be easier to make one that fetches elevation values directly using GDAL & handles the coordinate translations using ProjNet instead of simulating Google responses. I have working C# code doing this for a single GPS coordinate, but integrating this into an RTB plugin is another matter